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ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
Brad Fryman
Artistic Director
Gabe Bettio
Christopher Stetson Boal
Walter Brandes
Mac Brydon
Jane Cortney
Alexander Dinelaris, Jr.
Brad Fryman
Amy Henault
Mark Karafin
Dee Dee Katchen
William Laney
Jenna R. Lazar
Diánna Martin
Linda S. Nelson
Grace Pettijohn
Laura Siner
Ryan Tramont
Stewart Walker
Jarel Davidow
Steven Fechter
William Tatlock Green
Don Harvey
Earle Hugens
Chris McFarland
Christine Verleny
Diánna Martin
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Grace Pettijohn
Outreach Coordinator
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Matt Anderson
Ken Elston
Patricia Fryman
Keith D. Hanenberg
Craig Manzino
Rex McGraw
Kathy Simonis
PRESENTS
A disgraced New York Times journalist, Charles,
arrives in Rwanda for an exclusive interview with
two Hutu nuns. Charged with homicide, the nuns
must convince the world of their innocence during
the 1994 genocide or face a lifetime in prison.
PIMM’S
MISSION
When an unknown survivor contradicts their
story, Charles must choose which version
of the truth to tell the world.
AFFILIATE MEMBERS
Dyanne Court
Linda Hetrick Delaney
Nancy Georgini
Eric Parness
Emileena Pedigo
Cara Reichel
Rachel Reiner
Mickey Zetts
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J.J. Kandel, and the Neiman Marcus Group.
Our productions are made possible by the generous
support of the Edith Meiser Foundation, the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation, the Allstate Foundation,
Cameo Wealth and Creative Management
and New England Wealth Strategies.
Help us continue to create quality, affordable
theater. Please send your donation to Oberon
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online at www.oberontheatre.org. Oberon depends
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and original works to life.
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PIMM’S
MISSION
BY
CHRISTOPHER STETSON BOAL
MAC BRYDON
DANIEL MORGAN SHELLEY
GREG MACPHERSON
ROSS R. MANNING
(Pimm)
(Staats)
Mac Brydon is a California expat
residing in Greenwich Village.
Past work: York Shakespeare
Company, Resonance Ensemble,
Boomerang Theatre Co.,
Metropolitan Playhouse, Nylon
Fusion, NY Stage + Film, Hudson
Valley Shakespeare (A Midsummer
Night's Dream, Terrence O'Brien, dir.), Theatre
Virginia, and The San Diego Opera. For Oberon:
Chris Boal's Order, Austin Pendleton, dir.; Founder
of The Lafayette Salon Series that performs monthly
at The Players Club. TV: Lipstick Jungle. Film: Stuck,
Michelle Botticelli, dir.; Mac's First Time, Johnny
O’Hara, dir.; The Family Fang, Jason Bateman, dir.
Training: The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and
Drama. No. 14 for Oberon. www.macbrydon.com
Daniel Morgan Shelley is glad
to be back at Oberon Theatre
Ensemble, where he was last seen
in the title role of Othello. Other
favorite credits include Devil
Music at the EST One-Act
Marathon; Hamlet at CSC;
Romeo & Juliet, King Lear, The
Three Musketeers, and Love’s Labors Lost at Hudson
Valley Shakes; Safe House at Repertory Theatre
of St. Louis; and Clybourne Park at the Geva &
Cleveland Playhouse. TV: Law & Order, Blue
Bloods, Law & Order: SVU. Training: Juilliard.
DanielMorganShelley.com
(Lighting Design)
Designs include the New York and Los Angeles
productions of Tape, the New York and Chicago
productions of Killer Joe, and Roulette at the
John Houseman Theater. Greg is a member of
Ensemble Studio Theatre where he designed
the Marathon of One-Act Plays for 23 years
and 5 Times in One Night. Other work includes
The Hotel Play at LaMama, The Pitchfork Disney
at HERE Arts Center, Easter for Naked Angels
and Summer Shorts since 2010. He designed
A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Cinderella
for Ballet Memphis and has designed for The
52nd Street Project since 1988.
(Costume Design)
Menswear designer, returns to design for Oberon
after 15 years. His first collaboration with OTE
was in 1999 when he designed costumes for their
production of Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen. Manning
initially pursued a career in ballroom dancing that
brought him to designing costumes. An alumnus
of The Ohio State University Department of Theatre,
he went on to study costume design and receive
a BA in French. He continued his graduate design
studies attending NYU Tisch School of the Arts,
eventually leaving theater and stage to pursue his
career in the men’s fashion design industry. Over
the past decade, Ross came up through the ranks
of leading U.S. menswear companies Calvin Klein,
Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Tommy Hilfiger, and
most recently he leaves his distinctive mark on the
menswear heritage brand Haspel.
RYAN TRAMONT
(Thomas)
DIRECTED BY
TERRENCE O’BRIEN
CAST
ROBERT PIMM
THOMAS BLANDER
AGENT STAATS
JIM
AGENT CHARLES
MAC BRYDON*
RYAN TRAMONT*
DANIEL MORGAN SHELLEY*
BRAD FRYMAN*
PATRICK HAMILTON
PRODUCTION TEAM
LIGHTING DESIGN
COSTUME DESIGN
SCENIC DESIGN
SOUND DESIGN/ORIGINAL MUSIC
PROPSMASTER
STAGE MANAGER
PRODUCTION MANAGER
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
LIGHTING ASSISTANT
GREG MACPHERSON
ROSS MANNING
REBECCA LORD-SURRATT
NICK MOORE
ISABELLA CARTER
ASHLEY J. NICKAS
JENNA R. LAZAR
DEREK DICKINSON
COLLIN BRADLEY
The running time of Pimm’s Mission
is 80 minutes without an intermission.
BRAD FRYMAN
(Jim)
Brad Fryman is one of the
founders of Oberon and its current
Artistic Director. As such he has
helped produce 57 plays, 100
staged readings and extras,
and a plethora of fundraisers
and special events. Oberon
appearances include The Drawer
Boy, dir. Alex Dinelaris; 24/7’s Sweet Tea by Richard
Alfredo, dir. Johnny O’Hara; Order by Christopher
Stetson Boal, dir. Austin Pendleton; American
Rapture, dir. Alex Dinelaris; Taming of the Shrew
(Petruchio); King Lear (Edmund); A Midsummer
Night’s Dream (Demetrius); Winter’s Tale
(Autolycus); Twelfth Night; Measure for Measure;
The Tempest; Three Sisters (Vershinin); The Miser
(Jacques); Ghosts (Jacob Engstrand); Ghost on Fire
(Toomie); The Physicists (Mobius); Moonchildren
(Uncle Murray); Pieces of Seven and Finding Louise.
Regional credits include Sweet Bird of Youth at the
NJSF; Twelfth Night (Malvolio), Second Company;
The Mousetrap (Paraviccini u/s) at Peterborough
Players; and Born Yesterday at The North Canton
Players. Charlie Baker in The Foreigner, Bottom in
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Juror #3 in Twelve
Angry Men and Tom Wingfield in the The Glass
Menagerie are other favorite roles. Film credits
include The Followers, Restaurant, and the lead
Joe Campbell in the feature film Snakes and Arrows.
Brad has his M.F.A. in Acting from The Ohio State
University.
PATRICK HAMILTON
(Charles)
Patrick Hamilton is happy to be
working with Oberon Theatre
Ensemble. Also working in Romeo
and Juliet this summer with the
Snow Falcon Production Company.
Film: Star Wars: The Lesser Evil,
winner of the Kathleen Kennedy
Award in 2015. Training: The Tom
Todoroff Studio.
Off Broadway: Chris Boal’s
Order, 23 Knives, and Crazy for
the Dog; Alex Dinelaris’ In This,
Our Time. NYC: Hamlet, Othello,
Macbeth, Ursa Minor, History
of the World (also nat’l tour), and
others. Regional: Total Eclipse,
A Life in the Theater, Hurlyburly,
American Buffalo, Mass Appeal, and others.
Film/TV: The Hurt Locker (Oscar Winner, Best
Picture), Mission, Law & Order, Smash, Hack. Thanks
to Mom, A.P., K.S., Chris and the cast and crew.
CHRISTOPHER STETSON BOAL
(Playwright)
Author of the critically acclaimed Order (dir. Austin
Pendleton, Oberon Theatre Ensemble); Jonathan’s
Blaze (Summer Shorts, 59E59); Crazy for the
Dog; 23 Knives; and the long running Continuing
Adventures of Dick Danger. Winner – Audience
Award, Edinburgh Fringe for A Hope for This World.
Recent work includes Zorro (Sony), Caesar (Warner
Brothers), Circus Maximus (Starz), Ghost Brigade
(Paramount). Current projects: Earth Vs Moon
(Universal), Two Rabbits (Mad Chance). Proud
Member of Oberon, Resonance Ensemble,
WGA, BMI Musical Theater Workshop. Thanks
to J.J. Kandel, Brad Fryman, Elysabeth Kleinhans,
and ‘Secret Agent’ Robert Langdon Lloyd for
the inspiration.
TERRENCE O’BRIEN
(Director)
Terrence O’Brien is the Founding Artistic Director
of Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and was
that company’s artistic leader for 27 years, during
which he directed over 30 productions of plays
by Shakespeare and other authors and expanded
the company into a nationally recognized theater
festival. This spring, O’Brien directed and performed
his original one-person play, Popular Mechanics,
as part of the Man: Solo festival presented by
Bedlam Theatre in New York. He and his wife,
Jane Praeger, live in Manhattan with their daughter
Jenne and son Leo.
NICK MOORE
(Sound Design/Composer)
Work includes, Off Broadway: The Drawer Boy
(IT nominee, best sound) - SoHo Playhouse/Oberon
Theatre Ensemble; Expatriate - Culture Project;
Crazy for the Dog - Jean Cocteau Rep.; Defenses
of Prague - La Mama; Embraceable Me - (NY)
Rachel Reiner Productions/(NC) Blumenthal PAC.
Off Off Broadway: Seventeen Resonance Ensemble
productions, including 23 Knives (IT nominee,
best sound/music); six Oberon Theatre Ensemble
productions including Keep on Truckin’ It’s War
(MITF nominee outstanding sound); Peace (IT
nominee, best musical) — MCTC; Film: Coca-Cola
Contest winner, Being Reel, The Ticket Seller,
NewFilmakers/DAMNFest/WAMMFest/Powfest
selection; Member: Dramatists Guild; Resonance
Ensemble. Roundabout Theater Company:
Teaching Artist.
REBECCA LORD-SURRATT
(Set Design)
Recent projects include Summer Shorts (Throughline
Artists); The Woodsman and The Drawer Boy
(Oberon Theatre); Hand to God (Ensemble Studio
Theatre); Anon(ymous) (The New School for Drama
at LAByrinth Theater); The Rub, a Lecoq-style
adaptation of Hamlet (New Orleans Fringe);
Brainpeople, directed and written by Jose Rivera.
Art Director for Girl Code (MTV), MTVU Woodie
Awards (festival scenery), and Assistant Art Director
for Red Nose Day. Associate Designer for The Long
Schrift and Charles Ives Take Me Home (Rattlestick)
and Henry V (Two River Theater). Assistant Designer
for Brownsville Song (LCT3); Sex with Strangers
(Second Stage Theater); El Gato con Botas (Gotham
Chamber Opera); Streetcar Named Desire (Virginia
Opera); Food and Fadwa (NYTW); Reverberation
and Whipping Man (Hartford Stage); The Yellow
Hour, and Massacre (Rattlestick). MFA, NYU Tisch.
ISABELLA CARTER
(Propsmaster)
Recently graduated from Sarah Lawrence College
where she studied Performing Arts and the
Humanities and completed a year of training in the
London Theatre Program at the British American
Drama Academy. She is thrilled to be working with
the Oberon Theatre Ensemble.
ASHLEY J. NICKAS
(Stage Manager)
Ashley J. Nickas is honored to join the Oberon team
for Pimm's Mission. Ashley recently relocated to
New York from Memphis, TN, but she is no stranger
when it comes to theatre. Recent credits include
rehearsal stage manager for Her Speech, as part
of Planet Connections' Playwrights For A Cause,
production stage manager for Girls Only: The Secret
Comedy of Women in Rochester, NY, and event
stage manager at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg,
VA. For more information, check out
ashleynickas.com.
JENNA R. LAZAR
(Production Manager/OTE Company Manager)
Select Oberon credits include: The Drawer Boy
(Soho Playhouse); Order (dir. Austin Pendleton);
American Rapture (dir. Alexander Dinelaris);
The Starship Astrov (MITF); and Oberon’s 24/7
Play Festival. Other favorites: Summer Shorts
(59E59); Playwrights for a Cause; Love Gone Bad
(Nylon Fusion); A Hard Wall at High Speed
(APAC); The Truth Quotient (Resonance Ensemble);
Sex Good; Money Bad (Broken Watch Theatre
Company); Twelfth Night; Woman Before a
Glass (dir. Austin Pendleton); and Hamlet. Jenna
is the Company Manager for Oberon Theatre
Ensemble, the Technical Director for the Planet
Connections Theatre Festivity, and a proud member
of Actors’ Equity Association.